D-Link DIR-880L Wireless AC1900 Dual Band Gigabit Cloud Router

D-Link DIR-880L: Speed Tests Second Room

For this Second Room test we moved our client computer with the Netgear R7000 in bridge mode to a second room that was 20 feet away from the test router. There was a wooden double door that we had half way closed throughout all of our tests. For the 1MB data packets we told the LAN Speed Test (LST) application to run 240 successive test packets. For the 100MB data packet, we told LST to run for 10 successive tests.

Benchmark Results: Increasing the distance between the router and client, we find the D-Link DIR-880L makes a noticeable jump in performance. It might seem counterintuitive, while not at the top of our charts, the DIR-880 is essentially in the middle of the pack when looking at Average Read Speeds. To be honest, we are relieved to see the router performing at this level. Once again, D-Links older DIR-868L is near the top in wireless performance over 100 Mbps faster than the current flagship.

Benchmark Results: With larger packet sizes, the D-Link DIR-880L is starting to show its real potential. With Average Read speeds approaching 400 Mbps, this puts the router clearly on par with most next generation 802.11ac routers.